{"city":"Austin","name":"Avride","slug":"avride","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"ownership_change","value":"Nebius Group N.V.","source":"NVIDIA blogs"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"partnership","value":"28","source":"NVIDIA blogs"},{"date":"2026-01-01","type":"deployment","value":"Avride delivery robots continued operating for Uber Eats in Jersey City, Austin and Dallas alongside the Dallas robotaxi service","source":"archyde.com"},{"date":"2025-12-03","type":"deployment","value":"9","source":"investor.uber.com"},{"date":"2025-12-01","type":"deployment","value":"The Dallas fleet is limited at launch and will expand to hundreds of Avride robotaxis over the next few years, with Uber eventually taking over fleet operations","source":"techcrunch.com"},{"date":"2025-11-04","type":"partnership","value":"Grubhub and Avride","source":"The Robot Report"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Texas","aliases":["Avride","Yandex self-driving"],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Avride develops and deploys autonomous vehicles, including robotaxis operated through Uber, and autonomous delivery robots.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":64,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":7,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-11-01","header":"Wonder and Avride expand AI-based robot delivery to four U.S. cities","outlet":"Robot News"},{"date":"2026-09-10","header":"Uber plans to scale its NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion fleet to 28 cities by 2028.","outlet":"NVIDIA blogs"},{"date":"2026-08-16","header":"Avride surpassed 100,000 autonomous rides on the Uber app in Dallas.","outlet":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-08-01","header":"Avride secured $375 million in strategic investments and commercial commitments from Uber and Nebius.","outlet":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-08-01","header":"NHTSA opened an investigation into Avride after more than a dozen crashes.","outlet":"TechCrunch"},{"date":"2026-07-04","header":"Avride uses a provider-agnostic, plug-and-play cloud architecture for its VLM safety layer.","outlet":"The Robot Report"}],"website":"avride.ai","category":"Robotics · Systems","categories":[{"name":"Autonomous vehicles & driving","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Systems"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-11-02T11:01:03.159+00:00","facts_total":32,"positioning":"Avride is the only company in this batch running both robotaxis and sidewalk delivery robots on one AI platform, its clearest differentiator and the reason the perception, path-planning and safety work amortises across two revenue lines. Sidewalk robots have been fulfilling Uber Eats orders for hundreds of restaurants in Jersey City, Austin and Dallas since early 2025. The robotaxi service went commercial in Dallas on 2025-12-03 with all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles across roughly nine square miles, integrated directly into UberX, Uber Comfort and Uber Comfort Electric at no price premium, so riders are matched to an AV rather than choosing one. That integration gives Uber unusually clean data on AV preference at price parity. Safety specialists remain onboard. Avride manages its own fleet initially, with Uber expected to take over day-to-day fleet operations later, mirroring the Waymo arrangement. Fleet target is up to 500 vehicles, expanding to hundreds in Dallas over the next few years.","sub_category":"Autonomous vehicles & driving","signals_total":24,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/avride","title":"Avride · robotics, Austin, Texas, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Avride develops and deploys autonomous vehicles, including robotaxis operated through Uber, and autonomous delivery robots. Robotics watchlist (score 64) 24 signals and 32 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}